Extreme sports, adventure- and eco-tourism are bringing more people than ever into remote backcountry areas worldwide. The number of people visiting our remaining wilderness areas is set to increase further; in fact, nature tourism is the fastest growing sector in the 2.5 trillion global annual tourism market. What impacts will this have on the conservation of these areas and the species which are found there? While Europe is not traditionally seen as an ecotourism destination, the “European Safari” is a new and growing travel market. Romania leads the way in the development of this new genre of ecotourism marketing the Carpathian Mountains as the place to see Europe’s “Big Five” - elk, bison, bear, wolf and lynx. With its focus on carnivores, European safari is often referred to as “carnivore tourism” and we can draw lessons from the management of established carnivore tourism operations in North America. This study draws on spatial data collected using high resolution satellite telemetry and direct behavioural observation of brown bears at an exploited backcountry site in British Columbia to examine the impacts of ecotourism on brown bear spatio-temporal distribution and habitat use.